Münevver Ayaşlı (1906–99) was a conservative writer of essays, memoirs, and autobiographical novels, with Islamic mysticist and Turkist tendencies. Born in Thessaloniki, she lived as a child in various parts of the Ottoman ...

British colonialism in Cyprus marked a new phase in church-state relations. During the Ottoman period, senior clergy fulfilled administrative and political positions, thereby fusing religious functions and secular ...

This article studies the 1804 revolt in Cyprus and its repression. The protagonists of this revolt reveal a particularly complex situation in an area of the Ottoman periphery such as Cyprus at the beginning of the nineteenth ...

The purpose of this paper is to analyse the recent and noted effort to empower the religious framework in Turkish Cypriot education. The main argument of this paper concerns the question of whether this effort must be ...